Pet Chicken Gets £600 Bionic Leg After Avian Accident (Pictures)

A chicken 'with personality' has been saved from the chopping block and given a bionic leg, after animal lover Sue Murphy splashed out £600 to rescue the bird's lame limb.

Pet hen Amelia, who had been rescued from her battery farm existence, was struck down by a fractured femur but luckily for her, her new owner was not ready to stick her in a pie just yet.

Instead, the chicken had a tiny metal rod fitted into her hollow femur and Lilliputian clamps supported the bone and metal in place to some threaded pins screwed in from the outside.

The one of a kind operation fitted ‘scaffolding’ and supported the chicken’s thigh bone, while allowing Amelia free movement as the fracture healed. She was up and pecking about within half an hour of leaving the operating table.